48Article 36.1 of the ESCB Statute confers functional autonomy on the ECB as regards the arrangements applying to its staff. Those arrangements, defined in the Conditions of Employment and the Staff Rules (Article 21 of the ECB's Rules of Procedure), are not the same as the rules applying to officials and the rules applying to other servants of the European Communities. They are also not dependent on the laws of the Member States. Article 9(c) of the Conditions of Employment states that ‘no specific national law governs those Conditions of Employment’ and that the ‘ECB applies (i) the general principles of law common to the Member States, (ii) the general principles of European Community (EC) law, and (iii) the rules contained in the EC regulations and directives concerning social policy which are addressed to the Member States’.
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